Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 177 Case closed
"They don't talk about Wu De!"

"I was caught because I was careless and didn't dodge."

"You know, if I were an 'Expelliarmus' at that time, they would all have to lie down."

In the Auror office of the Ministry of Magic in London, Gilderoy Lockhart, who had won the "Order of Merlin, Third Class", was talking to an Auror who came to him for details.

Due to the celebrity effect, the Auror responsible for reception and inquiry could only record with a quill while nodding frequently and saying: "Ah, yes, yes, yes."

In addition to him, several people who personally experienced the "Fantastic Beast Riot" in the Pillars of Hercules Commercial Street also provided testimony as witnesses.

Compared to these witnesses, some people were also brought to London from Gibraltar, but those people were all suspects.

Therefore, the place where they stayed was not the second underground floor (Department of Magical Law Enforcement), but the tenth underground floor that was inaccessible to the elevator.

There are many courtrooms on the tenth floor underground of the Ministry of Magic. Except for one specially prepared for the Wizengamot Tribunal, the others are all used for interrogating various prisoners.

Director Weasel was now firmly locked up in the eighth courtroom.

The door at the entrance of this courtroom is dark and solemn, with a huge iron chain hanging on it. After passing through the door, a room in the shape of an "8" appears.

However, this "8" is not so symmetrical. The room is divided into two parts. One is huge, big enough to accommodate dozens of people inside at the same time without feeling suffocated; the other is tiny, so small that only one person can stand inside, and cannot easily bend down even if they want to squat down.

Weasel was in that small cubicle, with an iron chain tied to his body, and his whole body was almost half-suspended in place.

In the large cubicle, a row of armchairs were arranged in a semi-arc shape. Several Aurors responsible for interrogation work were all sitting on the armchairs, holding wands and staring covetously at Weasel in the small cubicle.

The floor, walls, and ceiling were all made of stone, and the burning torches illuminated the blackened walls.

Except for Director Scrimgeour, who sits in the middle armchair, these Aurors are all "special Aurors" of the Auror Office. They never go out in the field, and their numbers and names are all important to the Auror Office. confidential.

These people all wear a special pitch black mask with holes only for the two eyes and mouth. Around these three holes are two letters "M" and one letter "O" etched in pure silver. The combination is "MOM", the abbreviation for the Ministry of Magic.

They were dressed like this, firstly, to conceal their identities, and secondly, to show their interrogators:

First, we represent the Ministry of Magic;

Second, everything we do is entirely for the benefit of the Ministry of Magic;
Third, there is no personal grudge between us and you, so please don’t resent us in the future.

It should be said or not, this is definitely an authentic Da Ying tradition - flow (xing) Cheng (shi) Zheng (zhu) Yi (yi).

Khan sincerely believes that I have deceived him.

"So, let's start now?"

A special Auror sitting next to Scrimgeour tilted his head and asked the supervisor. After getting the latter's permission, he immediately waved his wand and casually released an extremely weak magical impact on the wall.

Not only is it not a magic spell at all, the intensity of this magical impact is not even comparable to the mild prank spells that ordinary little wizards use when playing around.

Such an operation is simply not something an Auror can do.

However, just as this "insignificant" magic impact hit the wall, Weasel immediately let out a howl like a ghost.

On the wall of that small cubicle, there were 8 special wands stuck on them with the "Permanent Adhesion Charm". Their wand bodies are all made of incredibly hard hornbeam wood, and the wand cores are all made of fire dragon heartstrings, a material that can greatly increase the power of spells. Moreover, these 8 special wands have been specially treated and can only emit a fixed spell. And these 8 fixed spells, without exception, are all spells used to torture wizards.

To put it bluntly, this eighth courtroom is prepared for some heinous wizard criminals. It is a room specially used to perform the "Great Memory Restoration Spell".

As long as a spell is cast on a specific location on the wall in the large cubicle, the corresponding special wand in the small cubicle can immediately activate a certain torture spell in multiples.

As for these "special Aurors", they have actually received particularly strict training and can control the power of their spells to a great extent.

Otherwise, after multiplying the torture spell, it is very likely that the victim will be sent to see Merlin in one fell swoop.

The torture spell inspired by the special wizard just now is a transformation torture spell.

When this spell hit Weasel, thousands of nail-length spikes instantly sprouted from the inside of his clothes, and its effect is self-evident.

Scrimgeour frowned. Although he didn't like such a cruel interrogation process, the traditions of the Auror Office still had to be observed.

"Suspect W..."

Still following tradition, Scrimgeour did not use his name directly, but instead called Weasel, who was being interrogated, by a code name.

"...If you want to be decent, then tell the truth. If you don't want to be decent, then we will do it for you. We have eight ways to make you look decent!"

"Be honest! Don't think about resisting! We already have evidence of your crime, and your accomplices have already confessed!"

"If you perform well enough and turn in your duties quickly enough, then we can find a good position for you in Azkaban Prison!"

"You and your accomplices, whoever is the last to explain will be 100% the first to encounter the Dementors after living in Azkaban!"

In order to increase his persuasiveness, Scrimgeour looked at another special Auror, who immediately understood.

"Ow—!"

Weasel was hit with another curse, whether it was intentional or accidental. This time, it was the Cruciatus curse among the "Three Unforgivable Curses".

(When necessary, Aurors will even be authorized by the Ministry of Magic to legally use "Avada Kedavra" to deal with dark wizards, and because Aurors are not directly using "Crushing Bones" on people, their behavior at this time No magical laws were broken.)
The severe pain from his soul instantly broke the already battered Weasel's defenses, and he would never overestimate the possibility of surviving the interrogation and escaping guilt by fishing in troubled waters.

After receiving two consecutive critical hits, Weasel turned pale and his face was covered with big beads of sweat.

"You're going to fight as soon as you come up? What do you want to ask about? Why don't you ask first?"

Scrimgeour nodded. He did not refute Weasel's soul questioning, but he also did not explain to the other party the reason for "hit first without asking".

Who told this to be in the eighth courtroom?

This is the tradition here.

Moreover, the facts have also proved that the existence of tradition naturally has its rational side. Didn’t Weasel just start confessing obediently? It was only a minute or two.

Then, Director Scrimgeour began to ask questions while using his wand to control the quill to quickly record on a piece of parchment hanging in the air.

That quill was very special. It had to be dipped in ink every time I wrote a word or two.

The ink it is dipped in is even more special. This thing is honest ink specially provided by the Department of Mysteries to the Auror Office and the Office of the Minister of Magic.

Unless the liar is a powerful wizard who can distort the properties of the ink, or the logic of the lie is 100% impeccable, the lies told by ordinary people will be immediately seen through as soon as they encounter this kind of ink. A quill dipped in this ink cannot write words containing lies.

It is precisely because of this that Weasel did not think about making up some lies during the explanation process and shirk the crimes he committed on others.

But in the end, he just bought himself two more experience tickets for the torture spell, and he almost collapsed from the pain.

Finally, when Weasel "honestly" explained everything, the parchment filled with the suspect's confession finally came to an end.

Weatherall was finished.

He used his status as an official of the Ministry of Magic to collude with Zabini, and his behavior of bullying in the Pillars of Hercules shopping street seriously violated the laws of the Ministry of Magic. If you go to the Wizengamot court, you will definitely be sentenced to pay a fixed fine, plus be sent to Azkaban for at least... a few months.

As for him, he was directly or indirectly involved in harming fellow wizards, shielding Zabini and the others for illegally smuggling banned magical animals, and later tried to murder Zabini and other witnesses. Although he failed, his sentence would still be increased by several years.

The most serious crimes he committed are the other two: First, for selfish purposes, he arbitrarily controls the use of the Floo network. This will probably be prosecuted by the Department of Magical Transportation and the Floo Bang Company, and it is very likely that ten more people will be charged. Second, he allowed his relatives to reveal their identity as wizards in front of Muggles (monopolizing the business of picking up and transporting wizards on the streets of Gibraltar), and he often flaunted himself in front of Muggles, even causing trouble during the Fantastic Beasts Riots. In order to add fuel to the flames, these are all suspected of or have seriously violated the "Confidentiality Act".

As a wizard with no real skills, he probably wouldn't be able to live there long if he went to Azkaban. The high probability is that within a few days, a dementor guard will "accidentally", "wander" or "accidentally" walk into his cell and give him a fatal kiss.

There is nothing we can do about this.

After all, the Statute of Secrecy is the cornerstone of the Ministry of Magic, and this is a fact that cannot be violated.

Even Sirius Black was sent to Azkaban and imprisoned after breaking the Statute of Secrecy?

Otherwise, with the identity of the only direct descendant of the Black family, and the number of Galleons in the Black family's Gringotts vault that no one can estimate clearly, and the mere killing and wounding of Muggles in a street, how could the Ministry of Magic treat that big man? Master, is this the punishment?
You know, at the Wizengamot court where Black was sentenced, at least two-thirds of the wizards present were related to Sirius!
Even Scrimgeour is actually a close relative of the Black family.

Therefore, when Dumbledore brought a "key witness" to the Ministry of Magic more than half a month ago and convened an impromptu Wizengamot meeting to clear Sirius's grievances, there was basically no resistance in the court. Almost all the old wizards or witches went along with the situation, and a collective vote agreed to rescue the unfortunate eldest son of the Black family from Azkaban and send him to St. Mungo's for recuperation and treatment.

Oh, by the way, the treatment and recuperation fees are all paid by the Ministry of Magic, which can be regarded as compensation for Black's mental and physical losses due to his unjust imprisonment.

Most of the Ministry of Magic was fine with this.

Everyone knew that with Sirius's temper, he might find an opportunity to throw more Galleons to the Ministry of Magic's Logistics Office before he was discharged from the hospital.

Get money to compensate a Black...

Who do you look down on?
In the entire Ministry of Magic, only people like Umbridge, the head of the Secretariat, would express dissatisfaction with the Ministry's decision to compensate Sirius.

In the end, it was Minister Fudge who told him, as the chief secretary, to shut his mouth.

July and August are coming soon (the travel season in many European and American countries), and it is the time for both the Muggle government and the Ministry of Magic to worry about mid-year bonuses. If the eldest son of the Black family can really generously reward people, the Ministry of Magic can save a lot of money! Minister Fudge can settle this account.

Thinking of this, Director Scrimgeour didn't want to think about anything else.

He immediately took Wiesel's "self-confession" and prepared to conduct a cross-reference with the interrogation results obtained in several other lower-level confidentiality courtrooms.

Although the case this time involves more complex aspects, fortunately the case is not complicated, and the high-level personnel within the Ministry of Magic have also set the tone.

Therefore, as long as the evidence is properly processed, the Wizengamot is expected to hold a single court session in the next few days to conduct a centralized trial in court.

He and the people in the Auror Office would only need to escort the prisoner to Azkaban after the trial, and this big case would be considered over.

The remaining matters, such as the personnel arrangements for the new head of the Ministry of Magic in the British Gibraltar region, the final disposal of the confiscated banned magical animals, and the compensation for the victims of this case, they did not need to worry about.

As soon as Scrimgeour walked out of the eighth courtroom, he saw a pink figure that he found very annoying.

"Rufus, I finally see you. It's not easy to see you."

The woman named Dolores Umbridge, the current chief secretary of Minister Fudge, actually appeared on the tenth floor underground of the Ministry of Magic.

"Who brought you down?"

Scrimgeour ignored Umbridge and instead took the lead in asking her how she got to this floor. There was no elevator directly accessible to the tenth floor underground of the Ministry of Magic. Except for a few people with authority, no one else in the Ministry of Magic had the authority to do so without permission. Came to this place.

This place has a security level within the Ministry of Magic, second only to the Department of Mysteries, and is guarded 24 hours a day by staff from the Auror Office.

"that's not important……"

When questioned, Umbridge seemed to feel that her authority had been weakened, so she involuntarily raised her voice.

She raised her stubby neck and shouted back at Scrimgeour with a sharp, sweet voice that sounded like the call of a viper bird.

"...I have a [Special Work Certificate] issued by Minister Fudge. With it, I can enter various departments of the Ministry of Magic and retrieve and organize various documents. This is also the responsibility of the Minister's Secretariat."

She is just talking nonsense.

Because even Fudge himself could not enter and exit the Department of Mysteries on the ninth floor of the Ministry of Magic at will, but Scrimgeour did not reveal this to his face.

Although he is the head of the operations department, he does not know anything about the world.

"Now, I want to retrieve the interrogation results from your Auror office. I need a backup of all paper materials related to this matter."

Scrimgeour was a little puzzled: "Does Minister Fudge want to see these things? What else is there to see? When he attends the Wizengamot Court in a few days, won't it be over?"

The corners of Umbridge's mouth raised slightly, and she replied arrogantly: "It's none of your business what Minister Fudge thinks. Anyway, the Secretariat needs all paper copies of the interrogation results of this case. Remember 'all'. I hope you can hurry up." Use the copying spell to copy it and send it to the Secretariat on the basement floor."

After saying that, the woman turned around and left without continuing to greet Scrimgeour.

(End of this chapter)